ISIS terrorist who launched Paris attacks that killed 130 awarded compensation
Salah Abdeslam, 29, faces multiple life sentences for his alleged crimes - but has been awarded the £450 payment for a breach of his privacy in prison
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An ISIS terrorist who launched the Paris attacks that killed 130 people has been awarded £450 in compensation.
Salah Abdeslam, 29, faces multiple life sentences for his alleged crimes - but has been awarded the payment for a breach of his privacy in prison.
A court in Versailles, west of Paris, ruled that surveillance cameras watching him 24 hours a day in a solitary confinement cell breached his right to a private life.
Abdeslam remains the most watched prisoner in France after taking part in the November 13 2015 atrocities that saw killers brandishing Kalashnikovs and explosives run rampage.
He was finally placed on remand in April 2016, but the Versailles Administrative Court said those supervising him went too far.
Cameras were set up all over his cell but ‘these were ruled illegal in March 2017 following a long legal battle’, said a judicial source.
It was considered that watching for such a long period of his time ‘breached his right to a private life’, according to Abdeslam’s lawyer, Frank Berton.
The fine of €500 – the equivalent of around £450 – was confirmed by Mr Berton, according to a new book about him by the French journalist Elsa Vigoureux.
After winning the case, Mr Berton was asked to provide Abdeslam’s bank details, but the prisoner is not thought to have touched the cash.
Abdeslam remains in solitary confinement at Fleury-Merogis, the largest prison in Europe, near Paris.
He has already received a 20-year prison sentence in Belgium for taking part in a shoot-out with police in Brussels in 2016.
It came three days before his arrest while on the run following the Friday 13 onslaught on Paris.
Abdeslam, a French national from a Moroccan background, was part of a group of suicide bombers who caused carnage at the Stade de France, cafes and restaurants, and the Bataclan music venue.
All blew themselves up or were shot dead by police, but Abdeslam abandoned his mission at France’s national stadium during a football international between France and Germany and went on the run.
The attackers killed a total of 130 people, including 89 at the Bataclan, while more than 410 others were wounded.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack on French soil since the Second World War, and one that led to a state of emergency being declared across the country.
Other Isis operatives involved included Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim Abdeslam, who died while letting off a bomb in a café.
The brothers had run a bar together in the Belgium capital, and had been in regular touch with Isis commanders in Syria.
Salah Abdeslam, 29, faces multiple life sentences for his alleged crimes - but has been awarded the payment for a breach of his privacy in prison.
A court in Versailles, west of Paris, ruled that surveillance cameras watching him 24 hours a day in a solitary confinement cell breached his right to a private life.
Abdeslam remains the most watched prisoner in France after taking part in the November 13 2015 atrocities that saw killers brandishing Kalashnikovs and explosives run rampage.
He was finally placed on remand in April 2016, but the Versailles Administrative Court said those supervising him went too far.
Cameras were set up all over his cell but ‘these were ruled illegal in March 2017 following a long legal battle’, said a judicial source.
It was considered that watching for such a long period of his time ‘breached his right to a private life’, according to Abdeslam’s lawyer, Frank Berton.
The fine of €500 – the equivalent of around £450 – was confirmed by Mr Berton, according to a new book about him by the French journalist Elsa Vigoureux.
After winning the case, Mr Berton was asked to provide Abdeslam’s bank details, but the prisoner is not thought to have touched the cash.
Abdeslam remains in solitary confinement at Fleury-Merogis, the largest prison in Europe, near Paris.
He has already received a 20-year prison sentence in Belgium for taking part in a shoot-out with police in Brussels in 2016.
It came three days before his arrest while on the run following the Friday 13 onslaught on Paris.
Abdeslam, a French national from a Moroccan background, was part of a group of suicide bombers who caused carnage at the Stade de France, cafes and restaurants, and the Bataclan music venue.
All blew themselves up or were shot dead by police, but Abdeslam abandoned his mission at France’s national stadium during a football international between France and Germany and went on the run.
The attackers killed a total of 130 people, including 89 at the Bataclan, while more than 410 others were wounded.
It was the deadliest terrorist attack on French soil since the Second World War, and one that led to a state of emergency being declared across the country.
Other Isis operatives involved included Abdeslam’s brother, Brahim Abdeslam, who died while letting off a bomb in a café.
The brothers had run a bar together in the Belgium capital, and had been in regular touch with Isis commanders in Syria.
I didn't realize prisoners had a right to privacy.
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